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Voice Mail Online User Guide
Overview
Welcome to the online version of SaskTel Voice Mail that is now accessible from any computer with Internet access You can listen to, sort, forward and/or delete your messages, change your settings and find support information. Basically, you can do everything online that you normally do over your phone. This user guide is intended as an introduction to the easy to use online version of SaskTel Voice Mail.
You may find that your voice mail account doesn’t have all the features described in this guide – this is because some mailbox options have slightly more functionality and the guide is designed to be used by all voice mail customers.
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How to Log On from your computer
1. Launch your browser and log on to www.sasktel.com.
2. From the sasktel.com homepage you can go to the Voice Mail Services login from two places.
Either click Business services in the Login box or click on Manage my services under the Business column.
3. Under the heading, Voice Mail Services, click on Manage my voice mail account.
How to check your messages
Inbox
To access your messages, either click on Messages on the left hand side of the page or on the Inbox link under the New messages: area. You will then see the screen shown in figure 5.
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4. On the Login page enter your 10-digit telephone number* in the Phone number field.
- example: 3065551234.
5. In the Password field enter your voice mail password (same as the one you use on the phone – enter in numeric form)
6. Click the Login button to access your voice mail account.
* Combined Voice Mail (formerly known as MessageManagerOne) customers must enter in your 10-digit telephone number and not your cell phone number.
1. By clicking on the title of each column, you can sort your messages by Type, Caller, Message, or Date. As a default, messages are arranged so the most recent are placed at the top of the list. Messages with a red dot beside them are new messages.
2. To open your messages click on one of the blue message links e.g. “Welcome.” You will see the screen displayed in figure 6. Once open, the message will start to play automatically.
3. To play it again click on the play control:
If you click on the link Listen to voice message your system’s media player will open and play the message.
4. The Mark as new button will return the message to the Inbox as if unread.
5. To download the message to your computer, click on the Download voice message link. This will open a dialog box - click on the Save button. The Save as window will open - choose the appropriate folder where you want your message saved and click Save.
6. To return back to your messages, click on the Inbox link on the left navigation area (circled in Figure 6) or click on the Cancel button.
7. In the Inbox screen (see Figure 5), you can delete one or more messages by clicking the checkbox in front of each message, and then hitting Delete. This will move the deleted messages
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1. To delete all messages from the trash bin, click the checkbox to the left of Type to select all messages and then click the Delete button.
2. To remove individual messages click the checkbox in front of that message and click the Delete button.
3. To undelete messages, click the checkbox of the message you want restored and click the Undelete button. This will move the message back into your Inbox.
4. Messages in the Trash can be listened to and downloaded the same way as in the Inbox.
Empty your Trash
To manage the messages that have been deleted, click on Trash on the left hand side of the page.
You will see the screen shown in Figure 7.
Messaging Options
To change voice mail Settings, Greetings, Lists, Notifications, and Attendant schedules, click on Messaging Options on the left hand side of the page. You will then see the screen shown in Figure 8.
How to set your voicemail options
The Messaging options link defaults to the Settings page.
1. To make any changes to your settings select the option that you want to change, click in the appropriate space (e.g.
Envelope On or Off) and click on the Update button to save your changes.
2. A pop-up window will state that “your preferences have been updated.” Click the OK button and you will be directed back to the Voice Mail home page.
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1. The greetings screen will display three types of greetings:
Personal greeting;
Recorded name greeting; and Extended absence greeting.
The greeting currently in effect will be selected. You can change your greeting by clicking on the circle/box beside the one you wish to enable.
2. The greetings that have a Listen link and this icon beside them indicate that you have already recorded a greeting through your telephone. Click on the on the Listen Link to review your recorded greeting.
3. Click on the Change link of the greeting you wish to change. You will see the following
How to set Greetings and Greeting Schedules
To listen to your different greeting options or to change which greeting is played on your telephone, click on Greetings on the left hand side of the page under Messaging options.
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4. You can change your greeting by:
• calling your local Voice Mail Services access number and accessing your voice mail account,
• by getting the Voice Mail Services application to call your, or
• by uploading a WAV file from your computer.
5. If you choose to change your greeting by getting Voice Mail Services to call you, please click on the “Click here and we’ll call you option.” You will then see the following screen and you should enter the 10 digit number at which you can currently be reached.
6. After you enter your 10 digit number and then click the OK button you will see the following acknowledgement screen (Figure 12). Click the Close button and you should be called immediately by the Greeting Management system. Follow the prompts over the telephone to change your greeting.
7. If your Voice Mail Services service includes Scheduled Greetings, in the bottom half of the Greetings screen you will see the Greetings Schedule area which allows you to create and enable a greeting schedule. You can select the day and time callers will receive your selected voice mail greeting.
8. Once you have enabled the greeting and or schedules you want, click the Update button.
Your changes will be confirmed. To return to the home page without making any changes, click Cancel.
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How to Create and Modify Lists
To create or modify Lists, click on Lists on the left hand side of the page under Messaging options.
To create a list:
1. Click on the Create list button, which will open up the following screen:
2. Enter a number between 11-25 in the box marked (a) in Figure 14 to signify a list name.
3. In the contact field (b) enter in a contact phone number.
4. Click the Add button (c) and the number will show up in the box on the left. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add more numbers to the Group list.
5. If you want to remove a number from the list – highlight it on the box on the left and click the Remove from list button.
6. Once you have all your contacts in the list click the Update button (d); or click the Cancel button to take you back to the home page, without saving your changes.
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To edit a list:
1. Click on the list’s number link.
2. You will return to the screen shown in Figure 14 where you can add/remove contacts to or from the group list and or change the list number.
3. Click the Update button once you have finished your edits.
To delete a list:
1. Click the checkbox in front of each list number, and then click the Delete list button.
2. A confirmation box will pop-up to make sure you want to delete. Click OK to delete or Cancel to keep your list available.
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How to Create and Modify Notifications
To create or modify how and when you are notified that there is a message waiting in your voice mail account, click on Notifications on the left hand side of the page under Messaging options.
You can choose to be notified that you have a voicemail by e-mail, text message, phone, or all three.
How to set up notification by e-mail:
1. Click on the Send email notification checkbox to enable the email notification option. List the email address in the field to the right of the checkbox.
2. Click on the Attach message as a .wav file checkbox if you want to receive a sound file of the voicemail that is presently waiting in your inbox. (Calls that are marked as ‘Private’ by the sender will not be sent as sound files to email addresses.)
Note: If a notification is sent to an email address, the voice mail can be listened to and deleted from the mailbox with the links that appear in the email...
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How to set up notification by text message:
1. Click on the Send text message notification to enable the option to be notified on your cell phone by text message indicating that you have a voicemail in your Inbox.
2. Make sure the Service type drop down list has ‘SaskTel Wireless’ selected.
3. Enter in your 10 digit cellular number in the 10-digit Wireless number field. (This field only appears after you have enabled the Send text message notification option).
Note: Text message notification is only available to SaskTel Wireless subscribers.
How to set up notification by phone:
In the phone notification area you can set up schedules for 3 different phone numbers.
For example:
In Schedule 1 you might set up a schedule so that if you are away from your desk you can be notified on your cell phone when you have a voicemail in your Inbox. You can set the schedule so that you only get notifications on your cell phone between office hours.
In Schedule 2 you might put in your home phone number and arrange to have notification when an ‘urgent’ voicemail is waiting in your work Inbox. You can set the schedule so that you only receive these notifications between 10am and 4pm so they do not interfere with too much of your home time.
If you are away on vacation or a business trip you can put the phone number of your hotel room etc. in the phone number field in the Temporary schedule area and enter the hours between which you want to receive notifications. You can also enter the date when you want the temporary notification schedule to end.
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1. When setting up either or all Schedule 1, 2 and Temporary click on the Send phone notification checkbox to enable the option to be notified by either a telephone or a cell phone when you have a new voicemail in your Inbox.
2. If you do not want to receive notifications when a message was unsuccessfully sent, click on Do not send failure notification check box.
3. In the Phone number field (a) enter the 10 digit telephone or cell phone number you wish to be notified at.
4. From the Alert drop down list (b) select whether you want to receive notification of All, only Urgent or List messages.
5. From the Delay drop down list (c) select whether you want to receive notification that you have a voicemail in your Inbox after:
• No delay,
• a 1 , 2 or 3 hour delay, or
• a 1 day delay.
6. In the Weekday and Weekend drop down lists (d) choose whether you want to receive notifications Between certain times (select times from the drop down time lists on the right), or All day, or you can choose to have the schedule Disabled.
7. Once finished making your notification changes, click the Update button to save your changes.
8. Click the Cancel button to take you back to the home page, without saving your changes.
Creating and Modifying Attendant Schedules
The Attendant option allows you to set up schedules for those times when you are unavailable and wish to redirect your calls to someone who can take them for you. You can configure the Attendant Schedule so that when someone calls you they will be presented with the choice of leaving a message or pressing ‘0’ to talk to a person for immediate assistance.
Note: If you enable the Attendant feature your phone greeting should instruct callers to press “0”
if they wish to speak to someone instead of just leaving a message.
Click on Attendant on the left hand side of the page under Messaging options:
1. Click on the checkbox beside Enable attendant schedules.
2. You may select up to three different schedules: Schedule 1, Schedule 2, or Holidays.
3. Enter your 10 digit phone number in the Phone number field in the Schedule 1, or 2 area.
4. Then, in the drop down lists to the right of the Period 1/2 choose whether you want your calls redirected Between certain times (select times from the drop down time lists on the right), or All day, or you can choose to have the schedule Disabled.
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Holidays
This is a good feature to use if you know you will be unavailable, whether due to Business Trips, Vacations, or Courses, on certain dates. You can list the specific dates you will be away and set the times you want your calls redirected to someone who can take them.
1. In the Phone number field (a) enter the 10 digit number where you want your calls redirected to.
2. When you click on the Edit button (b) beside the Dates drop down list you will see the following screen:
3. Choose your dates from the drop down month and date lists and then click the Add button to move the date to the list box on the left. If you make an error, press Remove from list to remove the date.
4. When you have picked all your dates click the OK button to return to the Attendant screen.
5. Once your selections have been made, press Update.
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How to use Voice Mail to Text
To subscribe to Voice Mail to Text, or to access your Voice Mail to Text settings click on either of the Voice Mail to Text links as indicated in Figure 21.
Before you subscribe to Voice Mail to Text you will be asked to read and accept the Terms &
Conditions of the service.
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How to activate/deactivate Voice Mail to Text
You will be presented with the screen as shown in Figure 22.
1. Click in the button marked On (circled in Figure 22) to activate Voice Mail to Text and to begin entering your settings.
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Choose how you want to receive your converted Voice Mail to Text messages.
As an email
1. Click in the E-mail box to the left of the screen to activate receiving conversions in e-mail format.
2. You can receive your converted voice mail at one or multiple e-mail address.
3. Simply add one or more email addresses (separated by a comma) in the E-mail field and click the Add button to the right of the field and the email address/es will appear in the list to the right of the screen.
4. Similarly if you want to remove an e-mail address from the list – just highlight it and click the Remove button.
As a Text message
1. To add Text message addresses make sure you have clicked in the Text message box to the left of the screen.
2. Enter the 10 digit number where you want the converted voice mail sent as a text message.
3. You will have to re-enter the number in the Confirmation field below.
4. Then click the Add button to add the number to your list.
5. Similarly if you want to remove Text message wireless number from the list – just highlight it and click the Remove button.
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How to set up your Voice Mail to Text conversion schedule
You can choose to have your voice mail converted to Text All the time or By schedule only.
1. If you choose By schedule only, you can select the days of the week, and the times of the day you wish the schedule to apply.
Choose which Voice Mails you want converted to text
You can specify to have voice mail from Everyone or From specific phone numbers only converted to text.
1. To add specific numbers just add them in the phone number field and click the Add button to move them to the list window to the right.
Once you have finished entering your Voice Mail to Text conversion settings either click the Update or Cancel button at the bottom left of the screen (see figure 26) button to complete your settings.
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Conversion History
You can check how many of your voice mail have been converted to text, who they were from and what address or number the conversion went to in the Conversion History section of Voice Mail to Text.
1. To view your Conversion History click on the link in the Navigation bar on the left of the page (as indicated in Figure 28).
2. This screen displays the conversion history for the Last 60 days (or 30 if you click on the button to change the report period).
3. This screen displays the Date, Time, Phone number of original message and where it was sent – see Result.
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Terms and conditions
Finally if you wish to review the Voice Mail to Text Terms and conditions just click on the Terms and conditions link in the left navigation bar (see Figure 29).
When you wish to exit the Voice Mail to Text interface just click on the Logout button at the top right of the screen (see Figure 29). You will be returned to the Login page.
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Call History
To view a list of your calls, click on Call history on the left hand side of the page. The call history will not include messages that were forwarded, replied to, or sent.
How to read your Call history:
1. The Report period (a) shows the dates of the call history – you can expand or contract the call history by clicking on the Last 30/60 days button (e).
2. The Date area (b) (which can be arranged by most or least recent date – just click on the Date link to toggle between) lists the dates each call was made.
3. The Time (c) column lists the time of day the call was made.
4. The Call info (d) column shows additional information about each call. If you click the ? beside Call info you will get a description of what each Call History symbol means:
5. The Phone number column (Figure 30) lists the caller’s number.
6. The Duration column (Figure 30) lists the duration of each.
7. When you have finished reviewing your Call history click the OK button on the bottom left to return to the start page.
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Password
To change your password, click on Password on the left hand side of the page.
1. Enter your current password (the one you use to access your voice mail over the phone) in the Current password box.
2. Type in your new 4 – 15 digit password in the New password box.
3. Re-type the new password in the Confirm password box and then click Update to save the change or click Cancel to return to the home page.
Support
For more information on SaskTel Voice Mail, click on Support on the left hand side of the page.
To access user guides, click on SaskTel Voice Mail and Talkmail user guides.
Click on Frequently asked questions for further information on common support issues.
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